About Us

The Institute for Applied Ecology (IAE) is a research and research training institute whose staff and associates contribute to understanding and improved management of species, communities and ecosystems in Australia and internationally, with particular reference to the effects of human activity. We are committed to intergenerational equity. Our contribution is through science, to better inform society in its quest to sustain the natural environment at least as diverse, healthy and productive in the future as it is now.

What we do

  • Undertake research to contribute to the understanding and improved management of plant and animal species, communities and ecosystems, with particular reference to the effects of human activity;
  • Educate professionals and postgraduates in biological resource science and management, especially management of vegetation, wildlife, waterways, parks and rangelands;
  • Provide advice to and undertake contract research for government and non-government agencies involved in biological resource management; and
  • Disseminate information on environmental management issues and encourages informed debate on these issues.

Our strengths

Our strengths

Annual Reports

Annual Report  –  2011    
Annual Report  –  2010    
Annual Report  –  2009    
Annual Report  –  2008    

Reports

2012 - 2016 Strategic Plan    
Directions and Strategies for 2005 to 2010    

Videos

Krebs Lecture 2012: Dr Brian Walker  –  Learning how to change in order not to change    
Krebs Lecture 2011: Professor Charles Krebs  –  What can Ecologists tell us about sustainability?    

Brochures

Institute for Applied Ecology: Ecological solutions for a healthy environment  –  2008    

Research Fliers

No. 14  –  Saving our rarest reptile    
No. 13  –  What would happen to Canberra's lakes if we harvest our water?    
No. 12  –  A home for homeless fish: Building refuges for Macquarie Perch    
No. 11  –  Will mayfly populations survive the drought?    
No. 10  –  Biodiversity in natural temperate grassland in the ACT: Conserving invertebrates    
No. 9  –  Suburban turtles    
No. 6  –  Wildlife detectives: Using DNA to find foxes in Tasmania    
No. 3  –  Roads and turtles    
No. 1  –  Aboriginal harvest of Long-necked turtles    

Posters

IAE science in the ACT: Providing ecological solution for a healthy environment  –  ACT map    
Sex in dragons    
Metals in marine molluscs    
Finding foxes in Tasmania    
Protecting threatened reptiles    
Caring for Macca  –  Macquarie Perch    
Mayflies caught in drought    
Pig-nose turtles: harvest and conservation    
Our nomadic Green Turtles    
Urban turtles in Gungahlin